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Compensation Issues

Anthony Tersigni, president and CEO of St. Louis-based Ascension, topped The Wall Street Journal's "Million-Dollar Club" for executives of nonprofit organizations who earned at least $1 million in 2014.

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Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare Chairman and CEO R. Milton Johnson's total compensation was nearly $17.3 million in 2017. That's 312 times as much as the company's median employee, according to a recent Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

Physicians across the U.S. saw a 4 percent increase in physician compensation from 2016 to 2017, but compensation varied significantly across metropolitan areas, according to Doximity's second annual Physician Compensation Report.

Neurosurgeons had the highest average annual salary in 2017 at $662,755, while pedatric infectious disease physicians had the lowest at $191,735 according to Doximity's second annual Physician Compensation Report.

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